Safety Officer

Mike Gregory

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Safety Officer: responsible for promoting safety in all its aspects. These include safety in the hangar and workshop, as well as operating safely in the air and on the ground. Willing to discuss the safety aspects of any Europa accident or incident, actual or potential, and where appropriate to take action through the LAA to develop and maintain safe operating procedures as well as the technical aspects of airworthiness.

Flying experience

Learned to fly on Chipmunks at Elstree and continued with the Air Squadron. Other experience includes the Miles Hawk III (Magister), Auster, Cherokee and Cessna 150. Currently part owner of a Jodel DR 250. Total 500 hours.

Special skills/experience

Served 37 years as an engineer officer in the Royal Air Force, including the maintenance of avionics systems and work as a project officer on the introduction to service of the Tornado, Hawk, Bulldog and Lynx. Subsequently worked at Cranfield University researching into design for manufacture in the aerospace industry and distributed design teamworking across industry sectors. In 1996 (at Ivan Shaw's request) designed a circuit diagram for the Europa and wrote an electrical chapter for the builders’ manual, including a section on basic electrics.

Locality

Cambridgeshire, flying DR 250 from Cambridge airport.

Aircraft, and current status

Building Europa Classic kit number 94.

General comments

I would encourage everyone concerned with Europas to share their experiences and knowledge to help others to understand what goes right and what might go wrong. Safety is no accident!

Fly safely

This page last updated by Rowland Carson 2009-12-16